Jakob, if you want to restrict all unconstrained terms to a particular part of your content, you can configure a Word Query specification on you database. It's just like configuring a field, but controls how all word queries are evaluated.
Sent from my iPhone On Mar 17, 2012, at 7:32 AM, "Jakob Fix" <[email protected]> wrote: > I'd like to know whether the (working) solution below is the way to go > or whether there are better ways. > > Here it goes: I'd like to restrain a simple word search to a number of > elements, like so: > > cts:search(/*, > cts:and-query(( > cts:element-word-query( > (xs:QName("abstract"), > xs:QName("title"), > xs:QName("subTitle") > ), > "query" > ) > )) > ) > > but I'd like to also use the search:search API in order to profit from > the snippeting, paging and reporting features it provides. > > I've looked at the <additional-query> option and indeed it works when > including the above cts:and-query, but I'm not sure whether that is > the optimal way of restraining search:search to a number of elements, > in particular the fact that I have to repeat the search term ($term) > seems kind of suboptimal: > > let $term := "cambodia" > > let $additional-query := cts:and-query(( > cts:element-word-query( > (fn:QName("http://purl.org/dc/terms/";, "abstract"), > fn:QName("http://purl.org/dc/terms/";, "title"), > fn:QName("http://purl.org/dc/terms/";, "subtitle") > ), > $term > ) > )) > > let $options := > <options xmlns="http://marklogic.com/appservices/search";> > <additional-query>{$additional-query}</additional-query> > <return-facets>false</return-facets> > <debug>true</debug> > </options> > > return search:search($term, $options) > > > I had looked also at using <element-query> constraints to constrain > the search to these elements only, but the <constraint> options seem > to provide a facility to further constrain the search via their name, > but I'm looking to only ever search in the three elements. > > <constraint name="title"> > <element-query ns="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"; name="title"/> > </constraint> > <constraint name="abstract"> > <element-query ns="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"; name="abstract"/> > </constraint> > <constraint name="subtitle"> > <element-query ns="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"; name="subtitle"/> > </constraint> > > Defining these constraints would allow me to do > search:search("title:cambodia subtitle:cambodia abstract:cambodia", > $options) but my overall goal is to only search a number of predefined > elements for any search. And repeating the constraints and the terms > in the search seems clumsy. > > I didn't have more luck with the <word> constraint option, for the > same reason as the <element-query> option. > > <constraint name="title"> > <word> > <element ns="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"; name="title"/> > </word> > </constraint> > <constraint name="abstract"> > <word> > <element ns="http://purl.org/dc/terms/"; name="abstract"/> > </word> > </constraint> > > So is the <additional-query> approach the way to go? > > Thanks, > Jakob. > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > [email protected] > http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general _______________________________________________ General mailing list [email protected] http://developer.marklogic.com/mailman/listinfo/general
